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...Placet. Two days later he took off in the President's Sacred Cow. "I'll do my best," he promised Harry Truman...
...with a degree of Doctor of Civil Law and broke a tradition by letting him witness the ceremony of his election by the doctors and heads of Oxford's colleges. Would the doctors give the degree to "a man most brilliant in war and peace?" Intoned the doctors: Placet...
...modern equivalent is the Baccalaureate Sermon), and then marched in solemn procession into the university church where Commencement was held. The presiding officer read each candidate's name aloud and asked the assembled Masters of Arts if it pleased them to have him admitted to their fraternity. They replied "placet" or "non placet," and if the "placets...
...July 18, 1870, it seemed as though history was being overdramatic. The skies were fulgurant. Detonations of thunder echoed hollowly and mysteriously through the corridors of St. Peter's. The question of infallibility was put to the Council and 535 voted placet; 2 voted non placet. The dissenters were the Bishop of Little Rock, Ark., and the Bishop of Ajaccio, Corsica (where the first Napoleon was born). The question was put again and 537 voted placet...
...year at jubilee. For that ceremony they arrived in Naples in good time but they reached Rome late by one day to attend the resplendent, the rare Public (Extraordinary Consistory at which five cardinals received their red hats; and late by five days for Cardinal Hayes to add his placet (it pleases! or yes!) to the naming of four of these in Secret (or Ordinary) Consistory...